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    Coifi is a priest recorded by Bede in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People as having presided over the temple at Goodmanham in the Northumbria...
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    Sancton in Deira, and Goodmanham, the site where the pagan high priest Coifi destroyed the idols according to Bede. Edwin's realm included the former...
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    Christianity in 627 CE. He describes how the primus pontificum ("high priest") Coifi gave speech about the uselessness of worshipping the traditional gods and...
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    second reference to cultic spaces found in Bede appears in his discussion of Coifi, an influential English pagan priest for King Edwin of Northumbria, who...
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    part of "Diálogos del Asceta y del Rey" (1953)) 1953: "La Apostasia de Coifi" 1954: "El Dios y el Rey" 1955: "La Hermana de Eloísa" (with Luisa Mercedes...
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  • Blot-Sweyn, leader of the Swedish pagan renaissance in the 11th century Coifi, priest of the temple at Goodmanham in the Kingdom of Northumbria in 627...
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    prohibition is seen in Bede's account of the Anglo-Saxon heathen priest Coifi, who was not permitted to ride, except on mares, or bear arms while pagan...
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    13(1), 7–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/08957690009598082 Barrow J. (2011) How Coifi Pierced Christ’s Side: A Re-Examination of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History...
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    had symbolic associations. In an account by Bede, the Christian priest Coifi cast a spear into his former pagan temple so as to defile it. In Anglo-Saxon...
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    consulted his leading men on the matter. The first to speak was the head-priest Coifi who explained that the traditional religion offers no benefits, and that...
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